Some had a unfortunate end!!

[LongSpur39]

Around here can't kill enough of them. Way out of hand!!

These two died out of the deer stand. 7mm08 at around 100 yds. Popped one and the other decided to investigate why his buddy did a face plant. Bad move on his part.

They've decimated our fox population in some areas and continue to kill off deer. I'd like to put them on the endangered species list. To me they don't fit in the balance of anything.

[4Pointer]

Some fine shootin ,, Lay out ,,

[grizz1]

That is some good shooting, taking a pair doesn't happen often. I hear your frustrations with the coyote, they can do a lot of damage but what I've seen over the years is when they get too thick their litter size drops, they will get mange, distemper etc and first thing you know their numbers drop. This cycle does not happen fast enough though if you are like me and want to see all fawns live and all your new born calves survive.

The county North of my house,Schuyler, (I'm 1/4 mile from it) was back in the 60's and 70's the top sheep producing county in the US for it's size. The coyotes took hold here and did well in the late 60's and now there are very few sheep left, almost no one raises them any longer. Coyote hunting groups formed and hunted together in the winter, we all used hounds and various means were used to keep up, normally a pickup truck. The lay of the land and marksmanship dictated how many Coyotes were taken. In the 70's I had my following with about 25 hunters, I had 40 dogs at the top of my game and ran down as many as we shot because our territory was covered with a lot of timber and big sections of land. We took around 75 Coyotes a year. During the week I hunted with the Schuyler CO group in more open country, smaller sections and they took between 225 and 300 a year. By spring the sheep were fairly safe and Coyotes hard to find but by fall the Coyotes would take a big lamb every so often and the hunts began with the first snow only to find the numbers were back and the same numbers of yotes would be taken that year.

A student biologist caught a litter, collared them to study and one of these coyotes moved to my farm. He was 50 miles from his den, another settled 12 miles East of me, 2 went 50 miles North into Iowa and 4 stayed near their home territory. The one East of me was shot as a yearling by a friend of mine, the one on my farm we chased with dogs on 4 occasions and never got a shot at him. The others all lived to be adults, their collars went dead or lost, the student graduated and we don't know what happened to them or how long they lived.
I met the student twice while he was tracking the coyote on my place and learned a lot from him. His thoughts were at the time was that hunting them had no affect at all, they would just fill back in from high populations near you, actually hunting them made them even more healthy. Around half or more of the litter will move 40 to 50 miles, natures way of preventing  inbreeding, with all them doing this, there is always a few vacant slots for a new coyote wherever he goes to take up a new territory, by 2 years old he is settled in and at home. His thoughts were, the coyote was his own worst enemy when they became over populated, food becomes scarce, disease takes hold, the litter size drops and the cycle starts over.

Having said this, it does make me feel good to thin them out when given a chance, sometimes they are worth a few dollars and will pay for some shells, can be fun to hunt, good practice shooting but eliminating them is apparently not going to happen. I will continue to shoot them every chance I get.

[LongSpur39]

That would be cool to use hounds!! And to radio track them to find out more about them. Your exactly right. We will never eliminate them, that's a pipe dream. But as long as I see em. I will be shootin! Lol!

[Kt29]

Good on you to get two of these guys.